Winter Hair - Blue Black and Pillarbox Red

My base hair color needed touching up, and I decided to go ahead and switch over to a more wintery look for my highlights. So, on Saturday, Joey colored my hair with Feria Starry Night, a blue black shade. I used to love it over every other blue black, but I'm starting to change my mind. Feria's formula tends to leave my hair feeling dry, (thank goodness for Silk Naturals Coconut Argan cleansing conditioner!)  and the color this time out turned out as a flat "bottle black" than the shiny blue black I'd been used to.

Still, I would only have just black hair for one day, so I lived with it.

I knew what color I wanted for my highlights - Punky Colours Pillarbox Red. Because my love for black and red is at least as strong as my love for black and pink, if not slightly stronger. So it was on with the highlight cap, and time for bleaching. It usually takes an hour and half for my hair to bleach using 40 volume developer without applying heat. I have a bonnet hair dryer, but wanted to be able to work on beading projects while I was waiting. Joey wasn't impressed with the color of Pillarbox Red in the jar, but I promised him it would look great once he was done. He'd done thicker sections of hair toward the front, and thinner highlights all throughout the back of my hair, almost to my neckline, so there are little threads of color everywhere. I am a very lucky girl to have a husband who will not only color my hair, but do such a fantastic job of it. (I am very lucky to have Joey in any case, but the hair color service is a very nice bonus!)

And so...here's me, with my winter hair:

I will end with my new daily affirmation. Feel free to use it too, if you wanna: "I'm here, I'm fat and I'm gorgeous. If you don't think so? You're wrong. Sucks to be you."

Time for a change of hair

I'm pretty well known for having pink hair. I've had pink streaks in my hair almost continually since October 2009. Most people have been very positive about it, and I'm happy keeping it to streaks/highlights only, which works better for me than dying my whole head pink.

Joey is my color stylist of choice. He does such a good job that my hairdresser's co-workers think she does it. She gives him all the credit, just like I do. :D

Thing is, going from black to blonde ain't easy without a color remover, and I didn't have one last time. The hair I normally highlight is pretty fragile, so doing a radical change wasn't in the cards. Still, my Flamingo Pink had started to fade out a bit, and I wanted something different. So, off to the paste hair color stash for something new!

I found a jar of Manic Panic Pillarbox Red in the stash and decided to use it. Manic Panic doesn't have the staying power that Punky Colour does for me, but I think it was on sale at my local Sally's, so it's easier to get than Punky Colour. Either way, waste not, want not, right?

Here's the results: